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Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick

Six books, also the Socratic Session, or the Arraignment and Conviction, of Julius Scaliger, with other Select Poems. By S. Sheppard

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Epig. 1. To Lydia.

To thee faire Nymph my life, my love, my gaze,
Thought-chaste Dictinna, Natures onely maze,

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More Lovely then was bright Astioche,
Or Junos hand-mayd sacred Diope
I didicate these labours, Read I pray,
For thine eyes stellifie all they survey.